Only in this country
do we have a media propaganda machine that devotes so much time to glorifying a system that is rotten to the core.It is all part of the great deception game, done so that viewers accept the legalized bribery called campaign
donations. England, Canada, and France take under 2 months for a process which we take
over a year.

I don’t watch
them because I can’t stand liars.What they say is for the audience and
is a very poor predictor—especially with neocons—of what they will do. I don’t watch them because I don’t
want to form an emotional bond to them, because this bond will cloud my ability to understand and respond to their policies.Unfortunately this bonding process influence votes. I find Bush Junior, Hillary and
Obama come across as very likeable people.Advertising works, and they are selling
themselves.

The three-way debate in October 1992, like the Palin-Biden contest on Thursday, pulled
in 69.9 million viewers, Nielsen Media Research said.Nielsen analyst Anne Elliot
suggested that nearly 70 million viewers in 1992 represented a bigger achievement, given there were roughly 60 million fewer
potential viewers in the United States then.The tally for the Palin-Biden contest in St. Louis easily eclipsed
the 52.4 million viewers who tuned in last Friday for this year's first presidential debate between McCain, an Arizona
senator, and Obama, a senator from Illinois.The Public Broadcasting Service, whose audience is not counted by Nielsen, estimated its network added 3.5 million
viewers to the total for Palin and Biden, versus 2.6 million for McCain-Obama.The
most watched televised presidential debate on record is the 1980 showdown between Democratic President Jimmy Carter and his
Republican challenger, Ronald Reagan, which drew 80.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen.By that measure, the historic first three matchups in 1960 between Democrat John Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon
rank as the top three presidential debates, garnering household ratings ranging from 59.1 to 61.0.By comparison, the Carter-Reagan debate ranks fourth, with a 58.9 rating. Palin and Biden scored a 41.7.The Palin-Biden contest still earns a place in the Nielsen record books as the most
viewed between vice presidential candidates, breaking the record held by the debate between Democrat Geraldine Ferraro, the
first woman on a major-party ticket, and Republican Vice President George H.W. Bush. Their showdown in 1984 averaged 56.7
million viewers.

The speeches have little
to do with understanding the issues.Better if each of the candidates were as
part of a campaign reformto write in essay form their position on each major
issue in essay form, along with an abstract thereof.And these position papers
were mailed to every household in the U.S.?Let the parties select the candidates and the election was
to occur one month after the mail of the position papers.TV & radio expenses/time
should be limited, and funding supplied as in Canada by the government.A
similar system needs to be in place for those running for Congress.This would
end our system of legalized bribery

Australia election cost in 1996 under $27,000,000 (doesn’t include cost of setting up polling places), which is about $1
per person.In Canada for the 2006 election the three principle parties received $18,278,278 each. The other 11 parties received a
grand total of about $18 million.Funding is based upon votes received in the
previous election.There is a third party spending limit of $150,000 per candidate
on national level, and $3,000 in each constituency.Corporate and union donations
are limited to $1,000 per year, individuals to $1,100.

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Teddy Roosevelt's advice that, "We must drive the special interests
out of politics. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial
forces which they have themselves called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political
activity remains."